The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1898, Page 22

22 THE SAN FRA CO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1898. Rutimes a Vanished Race Found im Central America. These Strange Pictures and Unknown Hieroglyphics on the Monuments and Pyramids Are Puzzling the Archseologists. They Have Not Yet Been Able to Solve the Mysterious Characters and Locate the Builders. ught to light the and almost @ marvel impenetr: st in Amer- lca, and unread. It was ur e, and for though covered reproduced Professor and is the with and intricately charac- found in raveling of the : will aid greatly fn de- her t reds of inscriptions | » territory once rmerly | welent | {— only two other form of “picture’ ey STEL A, F. they ed unexplored 1 example being in FRONT.. 1 their extent ux D how 8 Hondv s, where - the transcont n L is entlr covered s to el Gl Specimens of the Puzzling Monuments and Carvings Just Discovered in Quirigua, Guatemala. through t not have been dis- more than a n 1 new world. 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The first | The great drawback in the past has|trode of the machine, while air or oxy- N e b { t an angle of = @l SEESC = N = | been the lack of an apparatus to pro- gen is passed through th e as it stands \X ( )( b\ 5 & ) duce the ozone in the state In which it a glow or a shower of fine over the ten feet of its S5 =2 e > . is desired. act on the g and charg Ozone has never yet been obtained as or less strongly with ozone ere it es- a gas in the pure state, but from the capes. properties of mixtures containing it we For medical purposes the nev cannot doubt that gaseous ozone would atus invented by Dr. F i be blue in color, and condense at low | England, takes the for temperatures to an indigo blue liquid, tube containing a m e There are full attentio t o 1 by ce b figures carved on the front ik {7 »glyphic inscri has settled pe: lerwood’s visit. in With the New Machine Just Made for Its Production It Will Cure Conpsumption, has been celebrated not v his comp for the meag rtely notice i led by Mr. Maudsla Make Whisky Old in Six Weeks and Do Other Remarkabie Things. which explodes violently on contact|is surrounded by an ar at that time, with cral poor draw- | cast is in the American Mu- z -/ with a flame. aluminum and armed with S ings of the monolitt have tural History. T last a perfect apparatus for | had consumption; but the fact remains| but it might be described as a gas gen- The ozone in mixtures, such as are When the latter and the met r n visited by who stela, twenty-two feet the generation of ozone has been | that the man was death *k, exhib- | erated by decomposing atmosphere. produced by the electrification of air d up to a coil or to a s have ad b far the most produced, and now new won- | iting all the outward ind ns of the| For more than a century it has been or oxygen, is very instable, being re- ner a glow 1ding monolith human figur knowled ders In medical science are to dread disease, and was cured by lnhul-‘ known that air and oxygen acquire a| solved into common oxygen with ex- , and the be expected, unless all Indica- | ing ozone. peculiar odor when exposed to the ac- | plosive violence if suddenly compressed electrodes is tions fall. In this case the apparatus used wz ”“l" fl}f _electric ‘s;‘mr(ll(s. ax]u! }Y‘T:‘(‘\fu:: \;‘;:.hu:llt gre;;lo\‘xs cooling; and even un- ;“Ir‘ am of o0zo 7 £ s Schonbein ascertained nearly der atmospheric pressure it cannot persos are atmost | Dfone hesToug hoed enosen aeiins of) oniy: o BiAss Janicen glohs with &0 century that this odor Is due to | long be preserved except at rathep low | Particular loc ornaments. The | the most wonderful of curative agents. | of picture wire arranged on the inside. a distinct form of matter that has been temperatures. This characteristic in-| baratus is + waist are loaded | But heretofore it has been impossible to | One end of the globe closed with| called ozone, which is produced by the stability of ozone is at once the cause Jjacket. an elaborately | obtain it quickly and plentifully in a | a sheet of paraffine. Tt tached | electrolysis of dilute sulphuric acid, by | of its most interesting properties and | Air or o s from the wais pure state. to an ordinary static machine and the| the action of electric discharge in r. | of its possible usefulness. through the vphs, ing a 1k of the most sculptures. time published onl work and nor surrou parat then de an en can then be pumped slow oxidation Molecules of common oxygen contain livered from a celluloid m hi ¢ 5 the feet. In | wyith the crudest kind of apparatus a | patient placed his mouth over the open | and as a product of the 3 iy . a Kind of wand | uier oe ‘Do ctitioners In San Fram- | end of the globe and inhaled all the | of phosphorus, chemists are still try-| but two atdms of the element. while halation, or conveyed by & A metican Atu s nbling a “Jump- | O O R ompliched feats that sar. | 0zone produced. Cases are also record- | ing to learn the exact conditions of the | the molecules of ozone contain three required locality. The us has profited th er part is a gro- 00 Tiaye AccoropiahEn. fonts MIRCAUL |o@ of “many ‘ottier-di beigg cured, formation of this substance, and still such atoms, and it would seem that the | rubber should be avoided in this f the Duke of Loubat in with a long nose, | Prised even themselves. One physician | ¢u } as rheumatism, gout and bron- ting some oOf W8 simplest re- | atoms holT, torether much leas Retais| of the apparatus i tbher collection casts of the I From the bottom | claims to have cured a case of con-| chitis. while inventors are but be- | in the larger molecules than when they ishes with aston rapidity tures in stone yet discovered In 2 thers. The left | sumption by ozone alone. Some ques-| What is this wonderful ozone? ginning the work of making it useful | are united in pairs; consequently ozone | €Xposed to the action of ozone. hield, on the | tion might arise as to whether the man| To describe it briefly is not possible, | to man. | acts as a powerful oxidizer, readily | With such an apparatus a very small however, no syst bably a giving up part of its oxygen to oxidiza- | Static electrical machine fficient to nt ant, S0 ble substances, while the rest returns | operate it. The cur | to the ordinary form of the element, | and the ozone generate as | except in certain cases when it is com- | near pure as it is possib make it. | pletely absorbed. | Being all’ formed in th none of £ these two lz | . The action of ozone would come un- | it escapes, and the patie hales all der the head of what would be called | that is produced. Judging by the wi an oxidizer. Chemists already have, it | derful action of ozone in the past with Is true, plenty of oxidizers that can be crude apparatus, there is no doubt used as far as they go with good effect. | that the modern improvement places us | Many of these are Inexpensive, But not on the threshold of some astounding | even hydrogen peroxide, which can now | discoveries. | be obtained comparatively cheaply, is LA | quite so simple in its action as ozone, | BUSINESS HUSTLE IN CHICAGO. for this substance, which consists, as | e we have seen, of oxygen and of oxygen | “T am glad to see,” sald a New York | alone, \»\'hen used as an oxidizer does business man to a Chicago live stock | not leave any inconvenient residue such = “that the United States are be as accompanies the action of many | Gealer, “that the datbabyalbaton other oxidizing agents. Hence, a field | Coming very Chicagoesque In their way for the employment of ozone may be | of acquiring a population. found whenever a simple oxidizing “How, do you mean?” asked the Chi- ated py ameter t and north- 1ents, and in a plaza sides, is another sculptures of luxuriant quina, india 0 nd g gh the dept ima, tapir and pe e birds of brill are exceedingly which tant of these is in the y carved gigan- t extraordinary sculpture in C ntral America. Roughly lescribed it is a cube about eight feet and probably weighing twenty ely’ covered with pic- writing, and t of a large nur , terraces or { and rectangular, feet in of four both squar from x to forty tanding in groug ina & 5 At f a symbolic charac- t i ired. Tht o - 2 mg which are several exagger- agent is required. us, for example, | cago man. plaza, while others occupy an isolated 1 and human faces and fig- it has been suggested that it might .:{‘-h’. Unicle Sam 15 reaghing out and conveniently be used | 2 Peeatvax, starch or hoaes i theoChINg | 4 nnexing every thing In sight. That facture of degras for leather-makers, in | Will add greatly to our population and greater number of these been faced with squared hts of stone steps on position. The structures hav stones and had ures P ay spent much time in uring a plaster mold of this stone more than 400 piece: due side lz-\d;!‘ R R R In addition there is an interesting preparing drying oils for the manufac- | we will have more odd names in the 1:‘ l\l‘x:'mifl:;d‘»h (\ ‘d ity of the dvr; ;‘ih:- figure carved on another stela. repre- :!:r‘e‘[is Sf varnishes, or again, according | business directories of our newly ac- e s h has been called the ena- B A bt cosmopol 1 e by cutding down and burning the un- Port wine treated with ozone soon | PO8St in its cosmopolitan block, where dergrowth, and @ on of the puts on an appearance that under ordi- tWenty \nations are represented.” sculptures is me allen stelae, Some nary circumstances it would not ac-| “Don't you be carried away with tha Indians with mach others are broken. quire in vears. idea,” saild the Chicago m “Last As an oxidizer, the action of ozone | would be to destroy certain cells or ele- | n;e:x}:s x\nc!ksl;l k";;i! of bacteria. Much | of e work that has not been attempt- | Saas ed heretofore by the cruder appliances | tant Fm{;‘m; o fi E“m can now be worked out by the new ap- | ;&riS 0 & bunch. Last paratus. ‘l:a ; ca[:s“ca- e to It has long been known that ozone | Kot from Montana. acts as a preservative of flesh, arrest. | JeServation, ing and preventing putrifaction. When | (D¢ consig it is obtained in sufficient quantities jts | Chase the B uses in this direction are almost be. the Kettle, 5 5 t ) e yond estimate. | Laughing Face, d n the comstiuetion of e Ozone, as has already been sald, was | ing Thunder, Dr s and caificest Jpe IR aF 5 ' first noticed in air which had been ex- | (e call him Yello porting ‘|hes~ ‘m‘me:\se ds lor:les e = 3 \ posed to the sparks of electrical ma- | Wife and Big Head have been stupendous, and indi- R E ' SR N chines; but only very small quantities | Whole Unite a very high knowledge of me- TR R FRENRE \ R\ B MR LR \ A 0 \ | can be obtained in this way, and it is| o¢ the names 2 \ better to expose the air to a sort of elec. | business with tric rain composed of showers of very| Have the fine sparks, such as weye employed by | Chicago direc ¥ Andrews, or to the so-called silent dis-| York man innocently charge in one of the various forms of “Nag yet.,” replied the C “Siemens’ induction tube.” This in its ! “but they will be when simplest form consists of a long thin | tana.” test-tube sealed at its open end into a| ° T oD R slightly larger tube, the latter being! Tenor—At the fi provided with a narrow tube at each| I sang four ladies were end, so that a current of gas may be | the hall in a fainting co | passed between the two test-tubes. If| Friend—Ah! Indeed? But you must the inner tube of such an apparatus be | remember your voice has oVe st . vt - a filled with dilute sulphuric acid and le Blaet lh?l :‘lm“ .:xu;nxm;n jer - 2 > "Nlr}x;' of nicely lfud stones, | connected with one of the electrodes of oo scription yet found tn s t | covered with stucco or aster, | | b & condlsts of to Kinds of Writing The | with smooth cement floars: - " | The New Apparatus That Produces Ozone Cheaply in @ | Inhaling Ozone From Crude, Old-Fashioned | &3, iectrical machine, and If the outer | A fannel bag six inches square and of sor! E S - i sel vap - upper half of the inscription is in ple- | MARSHALL H. SAVILLE. Pure State apd in Large Quantities. Apparatus Made of a Lantern Globe. | which 1s connected with the other eiec- | urious adjunct to the bath. in advance. These ! skillful woodsmen that follow them as they out a “tunnel” th There are three p in the main group, standing thirteen la the fo: X‘A of stelae a masses carved to rep animals. These are in w the great plaza, or squa the anclent city, At the northern end is a la gular terraced struc long from east to w north to south, > corner is what app clal lagoon, or pond has an outlet in the present It is a stag . malari ing pond; nearly choked with dec vegetable matter. At the southern base of the structy are standing three stelae, or monolit ranging in height from fourteen elght feet and having carved on e front ar back rey ntations of hu- man figures. chin beard covered with hi the form of squ On anoth all covered over with moss, s the most delicately carved at in order to photograph necessary to have them care- ned with brushes. 'k out of which they are n gray porphyry, the quar- reing several mi from the ruins ore than 600 feet above the val- v. The stones were probably all trans- ported in the rough and carved on the spot where they now stand, the debris mounds and pyramids all alaces and temples of stone Such edifices are yed, so muclf- so that of the opinion that these d not support stone Idings of perishable ma- wood or adobe bricks. . however, proves once existed, for 1 pyramid several rooms wovered, revealing the tri- aya arch, with walls to the buil